Cannot SSH into datastore folders
I'm trying to ssh into my datastore, I can use the browser and view the folders and files, But when I ush ssh I can cd into the datastore but cannot see anyfiles? Is this a permission thing? Can...
View ArticleStuck at Remounting Root File system read-write mode
HI Running ESX 3. ESX is installed on it's own disks. Created 2 other disks on local storage on 2 different RAID arrays. I have several virtual machines running on one of the RAID arrays....
View ArticleShrinking VMDK file size/Improper File size after cloning
While working with VMWare support on case 1159631091 we had to clone a VM that had 3 seperate HD located on seperate volumes to a temporary large volume and then when after successfully starting the...
View ArticleInstalling ESX on a Dell PowerEdge 2970
We've got a new Dell PowerEdge 2970 and I'm trying to install ESX on it but I'm not getting anywhere. I've inserted the Dell CD and run the Systems Build & Update Utility and selected that I want...
View ArticleUnable to boot from iso file on DL385G5p
New VMware customer. We have 2 new DL385 G5p servers. There was a bug where the optical drive wasn't supported in build 123629and would prevent the ESXi install. We have gotten past this point...
View ArticleObserved IP Ranges blank
We plugged one of our ESX hosts into a switch and the observed ip range came up correctly. We realized the port on the switch was on the wrong VLAN, so we brought the port down, changed the VLAN on...
View Articleierr Assert
I am getting this error under the cpu list IERR assert. what is this error?
View ArticleVirtual Machine Marked (invalid) in inventory list
I received a vm that was allegedly created by us and sent to another office and now they have copied the entire vm directory to a USB drive and sent it back to us for maintenance. I copied the files to...
View ArticleSQL server mirroring with VMware HA
We would like to achieve High availability solution for SQL server in VMware and at the same time we are looking to use VMware HA. We thought of using Failover clustering for SQL server but then if we...
View ArticleBackup VM flat.vmdk or vmdk?
Hi. I have a VM on an ESX cluster 3.02. I want to 'migrate' this VM on a new cluster that is not reachable from the first. So I want to copy my vmdk file to an other computer which can access the...
View ArticleConnection failed: could not connect to host
ESX 3.5.0, 64607 - VIC 2.5.0, 84767 Hi. I hope someone can advise: Our ESX server, running 7 VMs, recently started using up most of its physical memory, triggering CPU and memory usage alerts. It...
View ArticleHP System Management Tools for Vmware
Hello everybody I have installed the HP system management tools on all my HP physical servers in order to monitor the HW and pull logs out of the server. - Is it possible to have the same on VMware...
View ArticleStop: 0x0000007B Inaccessible_boot_device Error
I have converted a server having windows 2000 adv server with sp4 (Dell 8450 series with 4 processors). I used Vmware converter 4.0 to convert in to VM. Earlier it failed so many times when i choose...
View ArticleUsing VMware Update Manager to Patch Offline Windows 2008 r2 Cluster Nodes
Anyone have any experience of Using VMware Update Manager to Patch Offline Windows Cluster Nodes? I am curious to see if there are any complexities associated with this as we are looking to do this...
View Articleneed to reformat server
I have ESX3 running, I want to delete all data, rm -rf does not work from command line. How does one reformat (delete/expunge) theo vmware os?
View ArticleHow to add an extra network card to ESX Server 3
Hi There I would like to get an existing VMware ESX 3 srever to recognise a new network card that I've recently added. I initially installed an ESX server with 2 network cards but I've recently added a...
View ArticleCommand to add user/group to administrator role
Is there a way to script user/group addition to administrator role via commandline? I use script to build our servers and it would be nice if I can script this one step. Thanks, Bhargav
View Articledoes esx 3.5 vmfs support thin provision san lun/volumes ?
does esx vmfs support thin provision san lun/volumes ? With my Equallogics box i can present a volume/lun to a windows server with a space i think it will grow over time. say 200 gigs. However on the...
View ArticleCreating users via kickstart
Does anyone know how to configure a kickstart script to automatically create users with SSH access upon first boot? Jason
View ArticleAuto Rebooting of ESX Server & Vservers
I know in Windows Server 2005 you could schedule the individual virtual servers to reboot and then finally, after a set number of seconds, have the main box reboot. Is there a way to do this with ESX?...
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